Remember when Ubisoft announced that it had gotten hold of the Tetris license and was making a new game in the venerable puzzle franchise? This latest installment, Tetris Ultimate, was originally announced for PS4, Xbox One, and PC (no Wii U!?), but now you can add 3DS to the platform list.
The portable version features all the modes from the others plus an exclusive one. It's called Challenge, and it's a single-player mode that presents a series of variants to the traditional rules. You may have to deal with disappearing blocks, or the blocks can't be rotated, and so on. Meanwhile, the six modes the 3DS game shares with its bigger counterparts are as follows:
Marathon – Complete level 15 and rack up as many points as you can.
Endless – Keep clearing lines until your stamina runs out.
Ultra – Race to score as many points possible before time runs out in this three-minute challenge.
Sprint – Clear 40 lines as quickly as you can.
Battle – Go head-to-head to knock out 1-4 challengers.
Battle Ultimate – Be the last person playing after using crazy power-ups. Go on the offensive with Carousel and make your opponent’s Well shift to the left after each move, or trigger Let it Rain and dump garbage down on top of them. Buzz Saw helps you out by clearing away a number of your lines, especially useful when you’re in a spot of trouble.
Tetris just feels right as a portable game, so Ultimate on 3DS may the version to get. The PS4, Xbox One, and PC versions arrive this summer, with the 3DS build coming in the fall.
